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READ.ME
ZVIEWP.EXE
==========
The ZiffNet OS/2 Viewer Utility
===============================
INSTALLING ZVIEWP
=================
ZVIEWP.EXE is an OS/2-compatible (v1.3 and v2.0) version of ZVIEW, the
ZiffNet text viewer utility. It will run as a command-line utility or from
the Workplace shell. Included in this ZVWOS2.EXE self-extracting archive is
RHPANELP.DLL, the DLL file for ZVIEWP's menu system. Once you have
de-compressed ZVWOS2.EXE, you should copy RHPANELP.DLL to one of the
directories included in the OS/2 CONFIG.SYS LIBPATH= statement, so it will
always be accessible to ZVIEWP.
ZVIEWP is functionally identical to DOS ZVIEW, and the rest of this READ.ME
file is taken from the READ.ME for the DOS version of ZVIEW. Adapt the
suggestions below to your specific needs and setup under OS/2.
ADDITIONAL COMMANDS
===================
Two additional quick-key commands are now available: Alt-E (Expand All) and
Alt-A (Collapse All). These are shown on the Tree (Alt-T) pull-down menu
and in the ZVIEW.ZDG documentation file but are not mentioned in Quick Help
(F1). These two commands Expand All or Collapse All headings, respectively,
in the Table of Contents screen.
COLOR SELECTION AND *.INI FILES
===============================
ZVIEW will automatically detect the presence of a color or monochrome
display adapter and will default to a basic color scheme for both types of
displays. However, ZVIEW may get confused by laptop LCD screens or by other
hybrid video systems (eg. AT&T's 640x400 gray-scale display used on the
PC6300 series), and you may also wish to change ZVIEWP's default color
scheme.
ZVIEW uses a file called ZVIEW.INI to store color configuration
information. This file is created the first time you use the Options, Color
menu choice and hit Enter or click on [Ok] to exit from the color selection
dialog box. If you don't make any changes, the resulting ZVIEW.INI file
will contain the default settings. If you ESCape from the dialog box, the
ZVIEW.INI will not be created or re-written. ZVW.EXE includes several
sample *.INI files.
LCDMONO.INI - sample configuration for gray-scale LCD screens
ATTMONO.INI - sample configuration for AT&T PC6300 monochrome screens
HGCMONO.INI - sample configuration for IBM MDA/Hercules displays
COLOR1.INI - sample configuration for color systems (default setting)
COLOR2.INI - sample configuration for color (alternative setting)
To try out one of these sample files, COPY (don't rename!) the file you
want to the configuration filename - ZVIEW.INI. Then load ZVIEW and check
the results.
You can modify the colors using the Options, Color pull-down menu and save
the results by pressing Enter to close the dialog box. Then exit and
restart ZVIEW to see the changes. Because ZVIEW always modifies the same
file -- ZVIEW.INI, copy this file to a new filename to save the
configuration when you arrive at a color combination you like.
If your system has a color adapter and a monochrome monitor and the default
display settings are unsatisfactory, you may want to tell ZVIEW that you
are using a monochrome display. You can do this by setting an environment
variable in DOS. The command syntax is:
SET PNLMONO=Y
Use all capital letters. Try this in conjunction with the HGCMONO.INI
settings for best results. You can test this on a color monitor, as well.
To return ZVIEW to auto-detection mode, just eliminate the environment
variable. Type:
SET PNLMONO=
This will erase the variable from memory. You can add the SET command to
your AUTOEXEC.BAT file if you always want ZVIEW to use the monochrome mode.
You could use a batch file to start ZVIEW with your special configuration
file and/or set the PNLMONO environment variable. The batch file might look
like this (comments in parenthesis -- don't include them in the actual
batch file!):
@echo off (Don't display commands)
cd\zview (Change to the ZVIEW subdirectory on the current drive)
SET PNLMONO=Y (Set ZVIEW to use a monochrome display)
copy FOOBAR.INI ZVIEW.INI > NUL (Copy your FOOBAR.INI file to ZVIEW.INI
and don't display the "1 file(s)
copied" message.)
ZVIEW %1 (Load ZVIEW. Use the "%1" parameter to pass the name of
a *.ZDG file to ZVIEWP from the command line. If you
include the name of a *.ZDG file on the command line
after the batch file command, ZVIEWP will load that
*.ZDG file automatically. If the batch file is named
"MYZVIEW.BAT", the command "MYZVIEW 386NOT.ZDG" will
load the 386NOT.ZDG Buyers' Digest file directly into
ZVIEW from the current directory.)
SET PNLMONO= (Clear the PNLMONO environment variable from memory.)
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